EU Foreign Ministers Could Discuss Safarov’s Issue During Their Upco

EU FOREIGN MINISTERS COULD DISCUSS SAFAROV’S ISSUE DURING THEIR UPCOMING TALKS

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September 05, 2012 | 14:59

The European Union foreign ministers could discuss, when they
gather for an informal meeting in Cyprus on Friday, Ramil Safarov’s
extradition by Hungary to Azerbaijan and his being granted pardon
there, RFE/RL reports, referring to its Brussels correspondent.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.